Bedstead-fastening



UNITED sTATEs v'PATENT oEEioE.

W. E. MERRILL AND F. TUPPER,

OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

BEDSTEAD-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, WESTLEY E. MER- RiLL and FREEMAN TUPPER, of Nashua,in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which* Figure l, is a plan or top View ofthe bedstea'd; the posts being bisected in order to show clearly themanner in which the canvas is attached to the rails. Fig. 2, is atransverse vertical section of the vbcdstead taken through the center.Fig. 3, is a section showing the device by which the rails are securedtothe posts. Fig. 4, is also a section further illustrating thedevicesin Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, in each ofthe several figures.

The nature of our invention consists in a peculiar device, which will behereinafter described, for securing the rails to the posts.

By the above improvements, thev bedstead is rendered very portable; asit may beV taken apart and again put together, in a short period oftime; and thevcanvas or sacking bottom may be taken from, or adjustedto, the rails, with the greatest facility.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and constructour invention, we will now proceed to describe the same.

A, (more particularly seen in Fig. 1,) rep,- resents a canvas or suckingbottom, having a series of holes around its edges.

B, B, B, B, represent the rails, having upon their upper surfaces, aseries of buttons, (a), which pass through the holes in the canvas orsacking bottom, when the said canvas isv secured to the rails, as seenin Fig. 1.

To the under side of the canvas A, are attached a series of springs,(b), seen 1n dotted lines in Fig. 2, which springs are 10,313, datedDecember 13, 1853.

secured to horizontal slats, (c). These slats, (c), rest upo-n cleats,(05), which are secured to the head and foot rails of the bedstead, asseen-in Fig. 2. The slats, (c), are not attached to the cleats, butmerely rest upon them, or in recesses made in the cleats. f

By the above arrangement, it will be seen that the canvas may be takenfrom, or adjusted to, the rails, in a moment of time, and with thegreatest facility.

At the ends o-f the rails, B, there are attached corner irons, C; eachcorner iron being bent in Zig-zag form, so as to make a recess for thereception of the post; this is seenin Figs. 3, and 4. The iron on thevend of one rail has two prongs or-angular the recess formed by theiro-ns, C, and binds what we claim as new and desire to secure A byLetters-Patent, is-

We claim securing the posts and rails together, by means of thecorner-irons, C, attached to the ends of the rails, and the clamp ordog, E, attached 4tothe posts; the said corner-irons and clamps or dogsbeing constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

W. E. MERRILL, Y F. TUPPER; itnesses ENOCH MERRILL, j GEO. E. DowNEs.

